UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The official paper of the University o Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
LAUIS ... ... ... ... ... Editor-in-Chief
GONNE MAIR ... ... ... ... ... Chief
BUSINESS STAFF:
CLARK A. WALLACE..Business Manager
M. D. BARR ...Circulation Manager
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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Published every afternoon by students of the University of Kansas, from the press of the department of journalism.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1912.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.
Nine Days "Till Examinations.
ARE YOU HUNGRY?
The pitiful wall of A. N. Eater in a recent communication to the Daily Kansan, cannot fail to strike a responsive chord in the hearts of a large number of students who find themselves at the noon or the chapel hour marooned on the hill with nary a bite to eat.
When it was first noised abroad that "Billy's" was going to abdicate, a loud protest was heard from the student body. However it failed to stir a hoped-for sentiment in the heart of the owner of the land upon which the little eating house stood and the building was moved.
Now that winter is here and Mt Oread is an icy dome, the necessity for a lunch room is emphasized. The department of home economics is unwilling to take up the task of serving meals and no doubt its inadequate equipment is sufficient excuse for its refusal.
But while all this agitation is going on we are hungry. The present condition offers no relief to an empty stomach. A. N. Eater has struck deep at one of the vital questions of our University life.
There are, then, only two ways left by which such a place may be established. Either the Board of Regents must take the initiative and see that such a room is secured or a privilege must be granted to private individuals or groups of individuals who desire to take the pecuniary risk necessary in starting the project.
The student who suggested the awarding of "K's" to the faculty members who eat the lunch served by the home economics class, is still unapprehended.
MERIT IN SENIORS' PLEA.
The movement of the seniors for a leave from examinations if a grade of "2" has been made in the semester's work, certainly carries with it an element of justice.
In the last few weeks of the senior year are crowded all the things that mark the culmination of a college career. If a student has done good work during the first part of the year and during the most of the last semester, there is no real reason why he should not be exempt from a quiz that cannot possibly affect his final grade. Anyone who has been doing “2” work will not fall down far enough in his final examinations to bar his graduation.
Exemption from final quizzes in the senior year would be one of the fondest recollections of an "old grad"'s life.
CALL AN OFFICER!
If the University consumes sixty tons of coal a day for heating purposes, how much does Washburn?
FOR THE SAKE OF ECONOMY.
Several months ago the members of the senior class voted to place the management of the Jayhawker upon the honor basis. By their actions they precluded the business manager from reaping a profit from his work.
In order to insure the class against a loss this year, the manager has decided to sell Annual tickets for $2.50 until March 1. After that date 25 cents will be added to the price of the Annual. In this way it is hoped to obtain an idea of the approximate number of books wanted and thus great saving will probably be made Last year there were almost two hundred books unsold owing to the inability of the manager to ascertain the number of books desired.
If the seniors are consistent in their idea of economy, they will assist the management by buying their Annual tickets before March 1.
WE'RE NOT BEHIND.
The University of Washington Daily has this to say about athletic conditions at Missouri, showing how the Kansas policy in athletics is being adopted:
Missouri has adopted the slogan in athletics: "Greatest Good for the Greatest Number," and the results of a system of athletics for all the students have caused favorable comment from the Missouri press. The University at Columbia has outdoor basket-ball courts, a golf link, baseball, diamonds and other outdoor, as well as indoor, equipment, which is used for athletic practice and competition among the interclass, interfraternity teams and teams representing the colleges within the university.
The idea of athletics for all the students is growing. Faculty, athletic authorities and students themselves are beginning to see the folly of developing a few strong teams composed in most cases of men who are rugged enough not to need athletics for the building up of their bodies.
HOW TO RUN SCHOOL PAPERS
In connection with the Pulitzer School of Journalism, for which Mr Joseph Pulitzer made provisions it his will, to be founded as a part of Columbia University, the Columbia Alumni News has collected the opinions of several editors and educators regarding the course of instruction that should be provided.
Philip J. Reid, editor of the Detroit Free Press, suggests that the present methods of selecting the staff for the college paper should be abolished and that the editors should be picked by rotation from among the enrolled students in the school of journalism, making service on the college paper a compulsory part of the study of journalism.
When the suggestion was mentioned to some of the editors of the Columbia Spectator, the college daily, it was not received favorably. The students on the paper expressed the opinion that the Spectator was a part of the college activities as much as the crew, or the baseball team, o the track team, and that the only way in which an undergraduate ought to attain to an editorship was through his ability and by working his way up.-New York Herald.
A WOLF had been gorging on an animal he had killed, when suddenly a small bone in the meat stuck in his swallow it. He soon felt terrible pain in his throat, and ran up and down grooming and grooming and seeking for relief to relieve the pain he was trying to induce in one of his bones to move the bone. "I would give anything," said he. "If you would take it out." At last the Crane agreed to try, then asked the man to open his jaws as wide as he could. Then the Crane put its long neck down the Wolf's throat, and with its brake the bone, till at least it got it out
AN EDITORIAL BY MR. AESOP
"Will you kindly give me the reward you promised?" said the Crane. "Will you send him a reward his teeth and 'Be content. You have put your r head inside a Wolf's mouth and taken it out again in safety, and ought to be reward enough for you."
Gratitude and greed go not together.
It's a good thing pianists don't charge by the pound.
—Princeton Tiger.
THE SAD, SAD GRIND OF OUR COLLEGE LIFE
"He has all kinds of money."
"Rich, eh?"
"No, cim collector."
--Minnesota Minnehaha.
D'Bord—You look thin, my lord.
My Lord-I ought to. I just lost
thirty pounds.
"I heard she kissed some chap o the golf links yesterday."
"Yes, it's a fact."
"How do you know?"
"I had it from her own lips."
—Princeton Tiger.
—Wisconsin Sphinx.
"Do you believe in eating clubs on the campus?" "No; nor in chewing toothpicks, either."
Stanford Chaparral.
"Go in swimming? Well I guess not. I'd like to see myself in that tank."
—Wisconsin Sphinx.
"I'm very fond of dogs," she coed, "My favorite is the colliet," "En so," replied the hungry stude, "I'm strong for hats, by golly"
"Then you'll have to wait till Mon day when they change the water." —Cornell Widow
Junior—I hear Briggs got into a lot of trouble with that girl he was
Soph—Yes; how's that?
Junior—He married her.
—Stanford Chaparral.
DESIDERATA.
"What do you charge for your rooms?"
What do you charge for your rooms?"
“五钱 dollars up.”
“But I'm a student—”
“Then it's five dollars down.”
——Cornell Widow.
Rev. Straiten Arrow—Sit down, Colonel. Have a glass of ice water and cool off.
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—Jack o' Lantern.
Col. Kaintuck—Water! Water!
Why, damme suh, ain't that the stuff they put under bridges?
LIKE "RAH! RAH!" WAYS.
The first object of education in the Philippines is, of course, to make the Filipinos an English-speaking people. Simultaneously their characters are to be built up and they are to be instructed in the beauties of Occidental civilization in general. But "a Filipino's idol of education . . . one which fits him to be a gentleman among his peers," and any American will tell you that the first effect of education on a Filipino is to make him consider himself too good to do any work.
Many of those who came out as teachers, especially in the very early days, were sadly unfitted for their work. It was inevitable that it should be so. The comfortable Jacksonian theory, once had wide acceptance in the United States, held that any American was by Divine Providence created competent to execute any task which he might undertake.
In Spanish days the great mass of the natives went barefooted, ... and they stood aside for any white man whom they met. Today the streets not only of the city of Manila but of all the towns over a large part of the Christian Islands, are thronged with dapper youths, clad in immaculate white, with high collars and faultless neckties, with shees not uncommonly of patent leather, and with well-oiled hair which, in most of their otherwise unoccupied moments they are combing with the aid of a pocket hand-mirror. Theseyouths do not stand aside for any white man, and least for any American. In them at least democratic doctrine has borne fruit.
But it was stretching this doctrine to its limits when it was supposed that any man or woman who could pass certain elementary examinations, never having had experience of the world beyond that to be gained in a small town in, perhaps, Kansas or Indiana, entirely unversed in the ways of men, could, being suddenly transplanted to an unfamiliar environment, become by the light of nature a competent instructor of ar Oriental people speaking a language of which the teacher was as ignorant as he (or she) was of Eastern natures and Eastern ways of thought.
Four things a man must learn to do if he would keep his record true; To think, without confusion, clearly; To love his fellowmen sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in God and Heaven securely
STUDENT OPINION
—HENRY VAN DYKE
A BENEFIT PERFORMANCE
The editor is not responsible for the contents of this book. Communications must be signed as an evidence of originality.
All the great newspapers in this section of the country are telling of the need of relief in the cities and towns that they represent and in the same issue acknowledging scores of benefits that have been received from the public-spirited and benevolent citizens.
The University of Kansas is never behind in any good work and in this instance it should be in the lead. Some of the social service that is taught here and the higher life of more advanced civilization that is advanced in such an institution could well find practical working in an emergency of this character.
The University has talent in all lines and some sort of benefit could be worked up that would not only prove to be a means to help, but a source of entertainment for those who gave their money to help the good work. Each time that any student enterprise is given here it is well attended and is a financial success. How much more of a success a performance with this aim in view could be can only be guessed.
Let the Student Council or some authorized body work for an achievement of this sort. Misery is at our door; the warmer weather has not nor will not, bring relief. We the fortunate ones of this generation should help those who have not our advantages; the approval of our own conscience would be reward enough; the better feeling toward the University would repay—if one need consider such repayment—by the advertisement that would be given such a move. Let the word go forth that the University is an institution that practices what it preaches and that the college man is not the type the newspapers depict but a serious young citizen, willing to take upon himself the burdens of life.
Arthur Moses.
DEAF BUT HAS A, B
The Boston Transcript in a recent editorial calls attention to an instance of student diligence at Harvard that is noteworthy. It says:
In the honor list at Harvard this year there is the name of a young man who has had to overcome serious physical defects to win his scholastic distinction. George Draper Osgood, despite the fact that he is deaf —not deaf and dumb, as has been reported—completed his work for an A. B. last June, but will not take the degree until 1912 in order to graduate with his class. He is now doing advanced work in chemistry and mathematics.
Mr. Osgood, who is a nephew of ex-Governor Draper, attended the Horace Mann School from the time he was five years old until he was nine, and later was a student at Chancey Hall and Noble and Greenough. He is the latter school's sole representative in this year's Harvard scholarship list.
The difficulties that this young man had to meet were enough to discourage the ordinary person. Born deaf, he was forced to acquire speech before he could begin his education. In college he has had to depend largely on second-hand notes in all his course, because even if the professor could be depended on always to face his class, it is a physical possibility for a student to keep his eyes fixed upon a speaker and at the same time take legible longhand notes. His is indeed an example of what can be accomplished by courage and hard work.
The Daily Kansan will publish in this space favorite verses of its readers. Contributions welcome—The Editor.
OLD FRIENDS IN VERSE
THANATOPSIS.
So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan that moves
To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of
Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaßtering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
—WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
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ONE THING
That makes Lawrence a good place to live in is its thirty miles of pavement, twenty-seven miles of brick and three miles of macadam. Ten years ago Lawrence was just beginning to come up out of the mud. Today it is one of the best paved cities in the state. And, by the way, the brick is made in Lawrence, so the city's money for paving is practically all turned back through the payrolls. That sort of thing spells prosperity.
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Carlisle Students Successful.
At Carlisle records have been made of students who only stayed long enough in college to complete partial terms. It was calculated that out of 3,000 .94 per cent are successfully earning their living and evidence by the uprightness of their lives that even the short term has had a great influence for good.
Have Faculty Loan Fund.
Dante's "Inferno" Was Fine
There is a loan fund of $5,000 at the University of California available for loans to professors and instructors to be drawn upon in case of serious and extended illness or similar misfortune.
Minnesota—Several women in the gymnasium have expressed a desire to take up cross-country running. A special class will be started soon.
But you must not miss seeing our special Friday and Saturday show at
TheAurora it includes
BIOGRAPH'S LATEST
and Henry Woodruff's success, "BROWN OF HARVARD"
The fine college play—a feature—and in addition the great tited film, "THE MAID OF ARGOS"—Great. This program is another of the series that has made The Aurora so famously popular with everybody, catering at all times to student patronage.
"Take Her to the Aurora."
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Seniors get busy, rates now on at "Con" Squires.